In India and China, the competition is high to get into top schools - not just any school. What the article is missing is that the top performers of these exams go to top schools and hence all these attempts.
As the high school kids in the US compete to get into HYPS(Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford), is the solution building more HYPS?
I guess rocket science is not this slashdotter's cup of chai. If you read TFA, they are not talking about launching gliders(himalayas of all the places!). And India's launch sites are along the coast (far away from the Pakis I guess:-)
And boy - how many language errors in one short sentence!!! 'does had' 'foot hills'.... Foothill doesn't just mean a small hill:-) It has to be like a foot(of a mountain or range)
I have personally found the BBC site much better for kids. I have seen my kids playing around arranging planets in solar system and a pretty neat simulation of planets orbiting when you are done. And also their science page is really good for all ages. When I first saw the planet jigsaw puzzle(the first link), I searched in NASA sites and could not find a single site. Each lab seemed to have a different page of their own but didn't find them interesting.
They have the captive market. As long as people are hooked to windows and office, M$ won't even care to look at the customer sat numbers. If your installed base is not shrinking, they are satisfied, right?
It was a nightmare when I tried Beta 1. Things didn't work and I could not go back to the previous version. Microsoft Support tried to help(sent a link to google groups:-) but it only made things worse. I had the look and feel of IE7 and the version reported IE6. It was a total mess.
A subsequent disk failure made me reinstall and rid IE7. My colleagues are now sending me all beta announcement links:-) I got this announcement 3 times in 5 minutes...
I live about two-three blocks from my kids elem school. Whenever I decide to walk them on a beautiful day to school, several people raise their eyebrows. And once the Principal pulled over 10 feet(not making this up) from the school entrance offering to give them a ride.
Jeez - does any one walk any more!
If you ask me - that's what you are launching to begin with:-)
Free phone calls? Where??
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Why do all the articles talk about 'free phone calls'? I do not find even a single VOIP service that lets you call a phone free. PC to PC is not a 'phone' call. Everybody including Hype(Skype!)charges for calling a phone. Ridiculously low amount but not free!
This is good for training people at young age. If BSoD happens a lot in your games, you will think it's a normal thing to happen to computers later in your professional life!
You can not relate the two. Google shows the snippets of the website and then takes you there - to their sites(even to a cached page is ok to a certain extent as it was public at some stage). It is simply directing you to a webpage that is public and free.
You can not apply the same about a published book that is not free. I like reading books free on the web but it doesn't mean that it is right and legal.
The ads are annoying especially the flashing/animated ones that grow and block the page... They should pay you to watch those things.
I block using the following:
hosts file (now its 30k lines)(google hosts file for links)
proxomitron
Adblock extension
The hosts file and proxomitron have served me well. At times when I use somebody else's machine, I am totally shocked at how much ads people put up with. And because of these, my PC has been bug-free for a long time and my friends reinstall OS every few months:-)
The do-not-call list has been great and nowadays I don't get any junk calls at all(an occasional charity call may be). Few months back, I was getting some junk calls from India and fortunately that has stopped too. I even went cheap and gave up caller-id to save some money.
I am surprised that a big number of responders still say that they receive junk calls. Hope they will leave this alone and not modify anything. I do notice that credit card and mortgage solicitations have gone up but that is less intrusive than calls and I can live with those. I do send junk back to them sometimes if the envelope doesn't have any id.
According to this, the implications are enormous. Of late, I have been edgy about the amount of information about you on google's access. The sidebar alone will make me panic. What do./ers think about the amount of individual info(search/browsing pattern, email, etc.,) under one roof. How strong are they about doing 'no evil' any more?
Simon Singh's Code Book covers history of encryption pretty extensively starting from Caesar's time. Enigma and others are covered very well. The encryption methods are covered in layman's terms(I think!).
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In India and China, the competition is high to get into top schools - not just any school. What the article is missing is that the top performers of these exams go to top schools and hence all these attempts. As the high school kids in the US compete to get into HYPS(Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford), is the solution building more HYPS?
I guess rocket science is not this slashdotter's cup of chai. If you read TFA, they are not talking about launching gliders(himalayas of all the places!). And India's launch sites are along the coast (far away from the Pakis I guess :-)
And boy - how many language errors in one short sentence!!! 'does had' 'foot hills'.... Foothill doesn't just mean a small hill :-) It has to be like a foot(of a mountain or range)
Oracleenex - now available in two versions: Lite and 2-ply (for redundancy)!!!
I have personally found the BBC site much better for kids. I have seen my kids playing around arranging planets in solar system and a pretty neat simulation of planets orbiting when you are done. And also their science page is really good for all ages.
When I first saw the planet jigsaw puzzle(the first link), I searched in NASA sites and could not find a single site. Each lab seemed to have a different page of their own but didn't find them interesting.
My kids camp out on the prehistoric games of animal evolution, sea creature etc.,
They have the captive market. As long as people are hooked to windows and office, M$ won't even care to look at the customer sat numbers. If your installed base is not shrinking, they are satisfied, right?
Has BSOD been upgraded to RSOD in all the versions or only in specific ones?
May be we need to outsource this too! India - the largest democracy - does all their electioneering with machines now!
Even if I want, I can't use that search as atdmt.com is in my list of blocked sites :-) - that is where your searches first go...
It was a nightmare when I tried Beta 1. Things didn't work and I could not go back to the previous version. Microsoft Support tried to help(sent a link to google groups :-) but it only made things worse. I had the look and feel of IE7 and the version reported IE6. It was a total mess.
A subsequent disk failure made me reinstall and rid IE7. My colleagues are now sending me all beta announcement links :-) I got this announcement 3 times in 5 minutes...
I live about two-three blocks from my kids elem school. Whenever I decide to walk them on a beautiful day to school, several people raise their eyebrows. And once the Principal pulled over 10 feet(not making this up) from the school entrance offering to give them a ride. Jeez - does any one walk any more!
If you ask me - that's what you are launching to begin with :-)
Why do all the articles talk about 'free phone calls'? I do not find even a single VOIP service that lets you call a phone free. PC to PC is not a 'phone' call. Everybody including Hype(Skype!)charges for calling a phone. Ridiculously low amount but not free!
According to this blog, iTunes stops phoning home if you turn off mini-store.
This is good for training people at young age. If BSoD happens a lot in your games, you will think it's a normal thing to happen to computers later in your professional life!
You can not relate the two. Google shows the snippets of the website and then takes you there - to their sites(even to a cached page is ok to a certain extent as it was public at some stage). It is simply directing you to a webpage that is public and free.
You can not apply the same about a published book that is not free. I like reading books free on the web but it doesn't mean that it is right and legal.
Do no evil - to your bank account!
The ads are annoying especially the flashing/animated ones that grow and block the page... They should pay you to watch those things.
:-)
I block using the following:
hosts file (now its 30k lines)(google hosts file for links)
proxomitron
Adblock extension
The hosts file and proxomitron have served me well. At times when I use somebody else's machine, I am totally shocked at how much ads people put up with. And because of these, my PC has been bug-free for a long time and my friends reinstall OS every few months
Where do I sign up for these jobs?
The do-not-call list has been great and nowadays I don't get any junk calls at all(an occasional charity call may be). Few months back, I was getting some junk calls from India and fortunately that has stopped too. I even went cheap and gave up caller-id to save some money. I am surprised that a big number of responders still say that they receive junk calls. Hope they will leave this alone and not modify anything. I do notice that credit card and mortgage solicitations have gone up but that is less intrusive than calls and I can live with those. I do send junk back to them sometimes if the envelope doesn't have any id.
According to this, the implications are enormous. Of late, I have been edgy about the amount of information about you on google's access. The sidebar alone will make me panic. What do ./ers think about the amount of individual info(search/browsing pattern, email, etc.,) under one roof. How strong are they about doing 'no evil' any more?
Simon Singh's Code Book covers history of encryption pretty extensively starting from Caesar's time. Enigma and others are covered very well.
The encryption methods are covered in layman's terms(I think!).